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give an Opportunity of hhrnbly publiffiiog' 

 more Thoughts to the World on that Subjed^; 

 and reducing that into a correfter Method 

 than has yet appeared. But When Town-* 

 Gardens are mentioned, 'tis not thereby meant 

 Gardens in or very near London, but thofe 

 tiiat are four, &vq^.Cix,i Or &ven. Miles oiib 

 QUt of' Town, -whitliter the Fatigues • of the 

 Court and Senate often force the iUuftrioos 

 Patriots of their Country to retreat, and 

 breathe th-e- Cweet atd fragrant Air of Gar- 

 dens 5 and thefei.Jdtre generally' too iBiich 

 p^nt up. . ^ ;; '■ ;• ' : / 



1 -By which nieatrs Gardeiiing may befup-'' 

 pos'd to he divided into two kinds^ mz.Cttji 

 ^ud Country j5 the firft for Flowers, c^i 

 and the laiiy .Woods, Coppices, Groves, and 

 the bu fie and laborious Employs of Agri-* 

 culture, with which Gardening: is unavoidably 

 iia.well as pleafantiy rnix'd, '. • i-j 

 n; 1 am apprehenlive this wilt meet witfe 

 different Acce^irrat'ion in the World, as it 

 fcit'S.with the Humours or-Interefts of many 

 of my own Pre^efiion, who t^'amongft other 

 Reafons too dong here to iname) not being 

 Willing to/fake/fo much. Pains.i\themfelve^, 

 or being; perhaps, naturally av^rfe to fuch 

 Publications, 'tis no wonder 'if they malign 

 both tlie Work and its Author. But as on 

 the one hand, I have tailed too feverely of 

 the Lafhes of Fortune, to take any great 

 Satisfaclion in r.ny thing but doing my Duty 5 

 fo, on the other, 1 am prepar'd to contemn 



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